This episode of Plugin Thoughts discusses reasons why you, as a WordPress plugin developer, should make an effort to understand how WordPress core functions. By gaining an understanding of how core works, you not only improve the quality of your plugins, but you also make it much easier on yourself when it comes to debugging…
Late last year I wrote a quick tutorial on how to show custom admin notifications to the WordPress dashboard. These notices are a really great tool for plugin / theme developers to use for showing alerts to their users. Easy Admin Noticaition is simple little plugin that let’s you do the same thing as my…
Easy Digital Downloads is for you, the users, so I’d like to get a feeling for the primary features you would like to see the plugin have. I have put together a quick form with what I believe to be some of the main features, please let me know which features are important to you,…
I am working on a new WordPress plugin that will provide an exceptionally easy and powerful way to sell digital downloads. The plugins is going to be especially geared towards websites that sell products such as WordPress themes or plugins, but will be perfect for anyone that is wanting to sell digital products on their…
Rémi Corson is a good friend of mine who has been so kind as to translate Restrict Content Pro into French. Recently he released a plugin called Easy User Fields that provides a very easy-to-use interface for adding custom meta fields to user profiles.
In an effort to continually boost the exposure of my latest WordPress plugin, Restrict Content Pro, I’m going to give away three free copies of the plugin to my Twitter followers. If you’re not familiar with it, Restrict Content Pro is my premium content plugin that allows you to easily transform your WordPress website into…
When developing for WordPress, both in themes and plugins, do not forget that many, many core functions exist and that it is not always necessary (or wise) to write your own custom methods. Most core functions have actions and filters included, so when you write your own function to replace the one in core, these…
If you are a Facebook user, then this is your chance to win a free copy of my Simple Notices Pro plugin. All you need to do is like my page on Facebook, and as soon as I reach 100 Likes, I will choose three random users who liked the page between now and then,…
Occasionally I come across plugins that are just awesome. While working on a client project that had a membership directory, I needed the ability to view profile details for each individual user in the directory. By default, WordPress uses the “/author/username” slug when viewing a user. Well for a directory of members (not authors), this…
In episode two of Plugin Thoughts, I talk about how and why to use filter hooks in your plugins to make it easy for your users and other developers to change text in your plugins. This entry is part 2 of 9 in the Plugin Thoughts Series
The Saola – Custom Contextual Help for Every Admin Page plugin that was just released by Morfi is a really slick little plugin that makes it really easy to add contextual help tabs to any page in the WordPress dashboard. I decided to pick up a copy of the plugin and give it a short…
Repeatable fields have been available in Easy Content Types for some time now, and have been quite popular. Since their release, a lot of users have been requesting that I add a “repeatable upload” field type that would permit users to add as many upload fields as they wish, just like the regular repeatable field.…
In a continuous effort to provide more and more quality content, especially since the launch of the site’s premium memberships, I am now officially searching for guest tutorial authors. If you would like to contribute to the site, please read on.
Cudazi, a very popular Theme Forest author who also dabbles in plugins, released a sweet little plugin today called Cudazi Scroll to Top. It adds a nice smooth scroll-to-top button to your WordPress site. The plugin is very, very simple, but excellent executed.
As this site expands, it is going to become more and more important for me to produce tutorials on the topics that you all, the readers, want to read about. Especially since the subscriptions were launched, I really want to get your input on the topics that you would like me to cover more.
